Tuesday, June 15, 2010

A quick reminder about the luggage policy on your upcoming tour

Dear Members of the CIC 2010 Performance Tour. We sure hope you are looking forward to being in Europe soon. Here is a quick reminder about what to bring and also what not.
Due to limited luggage space on the coach, Incantato's policy allows only one checked suitcase within the dimensions and weight limites imposed by Lufthansa for international flights.
The size of the bag is not to exceed 62 inches and not to exceed 50 pounds (23 kilos).
You are also allowed a small, and we recommend ideally backpack-style carry-on, which should not exceed 45 total inches and a weight of 18 pounds or 8 kilos.
I wish we could make any exceptions for garment bags, but cannot do so with the amount of travellers coming on the CIC tour and sharing one coach. As you also have fellow violinists and viola players traveling whose instruments are fragile and cannot be checked, we kindly ask you to please allow the strings to board ahead of you as just in case the room in the overhead compartment should fill up all the way, additional carry-ons will be checked curbside, but we would not want for that to happen to a string instrument.
Here is the answer we received from our partners at Lufthansa in regards to their carry-on policies and advise how we can all work together to benefit the string players when it comes to bringing their instruments on the plane:
Please advise the travelers to take as little carry-on with them as possible. Since the group occupies about 1/3 of the connecting flights, that should then not be a problem with the over-head bins.The passengers with carry-on string instruments should approach the gate agent and ask to be considered for preboarding and point out the violas and violins.

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